Build Your Own Z80 Computer: design guidelines and application notes is a book written by Steve Ciarcia, published in 1981 by McGraw-Hill. The book explains...
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Foundations of computer technology (1st ed.). London: Chapman & Hall. ISBN 0-412-59810-8. Ciarcia, Steve (1981). Build Your Own Z80 Computer – Design Guidelines...
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that he published. He is also the author of Build Your Own Z80 Computer, edited in 1981 and Take My Computer...Please!, published in 1978. He has also compiled...
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"Galaxy") was a build-it-yourself computer designed by Voja Antonić. It was featured in the special edition Računari u vašoj kući (Computers in your home, written...
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Programa Educativo de Colegios Secundarios (category Z80-based computers)
imported parts. The machine was created based on the article Build Your Own Z80 Computer by Steve Ciarcia in Byte magazine. The PECOS was primarily sold...
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TRS-80 (category Z80-based home computers)
abbreviation of Tandy Radio Shack, Z80 [microprocessor]. It is one of the earliest mass-produced and mass-marketed retail home computers. The TRS-80 has a full-stroke...
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income from its design-and-build consultancy. This system was launched in January 1979 as the first product of Acorn Computer Ltd., a trading name used...
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Cromemco (redirect from Cromemco - Tomorrow's Computers Today)
company known for its high-end Z80-based S-100 bus computers and peripherals in the early days of the personal computer revolution. The company began as...
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BBC BASIC (category Acorn Computers)
retaining the capability to be connected to a Z80 computer, Acorn was able to comply with the requirement of a computer supporting CP/M. Sophie Wilson developed...
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BBC Micro (redirect from BBC Computer Literacy Project)
Proton together to show the BBC. Although the BBC expected a computer with the Zilog Z80 CPU and CP/M operating system, not the Proton's 6502 CPU and...
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The 6502 family rivaled the Z80 in popularity during the 1980s. A low overall cost, little packaging, simple computer bus requirements, and sometimes...
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ZX81 (category Z80-based home computers)
Hayman (June 1982) Cass, Stephen (23 February 2018). "Build Your Own Altair 8800 Personal Computer". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 7 December 2022. Lendino,...
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Wang Laboratories (redirect from Wang Professional Computer)
crisis. The Z80 platform on which Alliance ran forced it to remain as an 8-bit application in a 64 KB workstation. The first Wang VS computer was introduced...
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Commodore 64 (redirect from C64 (home computer))
but this requires the addition of an external Z80 processor to the expansion bus. Furthermore, the Z80 processor is underclocked to be compatible with...
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Integrated circuit (redirect from Computer chip)
Technology 6502 and Zilog Z80 microprocessors, used in many home computers of the early 1980s The Motorola 6800 series of computer-related chips, leading...
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Intel 8008 (redirect from Intel Micro Computer Set 8)
has an equivalent not only in the instruction set of the 8080, 8085, and Z80, but also in the instruction set of modern x86 processors (although the instruction...
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ZX Spectrum (redirect from Spectrum (computer))
until his death in September 2021. The central processing unit is a Zilog Z80, an 8-bit microprocessor, with a clock rate of 3.5 MHz. The original model...
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MCM/70 (redirect from Micro Computer Machines)
computer language…make personal computer use and ownership a reality… Enjoy the privilege of having your own personal computer." The MCM/70 was sold mainly...
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Acorn Archimedes (redirect from Archimedes (computer system))
established platforms like CP/M running on Z80 processors faced competition from the IBM PC running PC DOS and computers with a variety of operating systems...
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Altair 8800 (category Computer-related introductions in 1974)
8800 with both 8080 and Z80. IMSAI 8080 Legacy8080 [ja] Reimer, Jeremy (2005-12-15). "Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures"....
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MOS Technology 6502 (redirect from 6502 architecture computer)
Zilog Z80, it sparked a series of projects that resulted in the home computer revolution of the early 1980s. Home video game consoles and home computers of...
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Cromemco Dazzler (category Computer-related introductions in 1976)
company - Zilog - introduced the Z80, Cromemco branched out into their own line of Z80-based S-100 compatible computers almost immediately. Over time these...
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4 - converts Spectrum snapshots in the .Z80 or .SNA format to or from Multiface 3 format (Multiface 3 -> Z80 only on a PC). […] PMSFX21X.COM […] PMSFX...
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List of Apple II clones (category Lists of computer hardware)
West Computer AS introduced an Apple II clone West PC-800 in 1984. The computer was designed as an alarm center allowing use of several CPUs (6502, Z80, 8086...
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arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles...
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IBM PC–compatible (redirect from IBM Compatible Computer)
refers to a class of computers that are technically compatible with the 1981 IBM PC and subsequent XT and AT models from computer giant IBM. Like the original...
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Ramtek Corporation (category Computer companies established in 1971)
Computer (1979) 6214 Color-graphic Computer (1980) with 16 displayable colors from a palette of 64 and using UCSD Pascal. It uses a 4 MHz Zilog Z80 CPU...
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MS-DOS (redirect from TeleVideo Personal Computer DOS 2.11)
weeks, as it was basically a clone of Digital Research's CP/M (for 8080/Z80 processors), ported to run on 8086 processors and with two notable differences...
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X86 (category Computer-related introductions in 1978)
and small multi-user or single-user computers, largely as a response to the successful 8080-compatible Zilog Z80, the x86 line soon grew in features and...
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Novell (category Computer companies disestablished in 2014)
Orders began shipping during the second half of 1981. The computer product was based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor and the CP/M operating system. The company...
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